Monday, 28 January 2013

REBECCA'S MUSINGS: Star-crossed Lovers

One of the characters in my current novel wonders aloud why all the famous love stories are tragedies. They invariably follow the Romeo and Juliet pattern: doomed young lovers, prevented by circumstance from having a normal married life, their story ending in premature death. Why?

Such lovers die at the height of their passion, before it has time to fade into ordinariness. Their love is obsession, infatuation, the kind of love associated with the teenage years when sex and love are powerful new forces in our lives that make us feel both desperate and intoxicated.

This powerful magnetic force transcends reason, as well as social barriers. It reminds us that the human spirit, when truly aroused, is noble and invincible. We don't want to be reminded of how the daily grind can wear down those magnificent emotions, how our spirits can be dragged down by familiarity, routine and the thousands of petty worries that beset us once we set up house and start a family.

Clearly youthful, all-consuming passion is a luxury that cannot be allowed to continue forever. Even adulterous affairs in later life can wreak havoc, if only because the passionate lovers are mooning over each other, constantly day-dreaming and texting each other, instead of getting on with their work! But we may still harbour regrets for that first, wonderful experience of love when the beloved was just perfect in every way and our whole lives revolved around them.

Who, I wonder, gets the better deal: those 'star-crossed lovers' who fade away before their love does, or we who remain with our compromised lives, lovers who turn into 'best friends' and 'companions,' no longer heroes and heroines but human beings with feet of clay.

Let us not forget that glorious sexual passion can also bring pain and misery when it is unrequited. Perhaps what we admire most about those tragic lovers is that they die before their love is tainted, still believing that their passion is everlasting.

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Fifty Shades Fans!

Are you a fan of 'Fifty Shades'? If so, why not try 'Strictly Pleasure' by Nadine Wilder. In a new twist on the theme, the heroine, Cordelia, is a 'switch' - she loves to be submissive to her boss in the office and dominant to her domestic slave at home.

MY BOOKS EXPLAINED!

Welcome to the Erotica Femina Blog, featuring the work of British author Rebecca Ambrose. Titles written under this pen-name are erotic novels aimed at women, or couples. They are published as Ebooks and mostly contemporary, but a few are historical or fantasy-themed.

I also write historical novels under the name of Vivienne Lafay: a Victorian trilogy set in the 'Naughty Nineties' (that's the 1890s!) and one set in Renaissance Florence.

Vanessa Davies is my pseudonym for sexy stories aimed at women, such as The Women's Club.

Erotica for men comes under my Nadine Wilder pen-name but women who like raunchy, no-holds-barred erotica may like these too.

Lastly, you will find more erotica under the name of Rosanna Challis. As well as the ever-popular spanking novels (published by Chimera Press) there are other erotic works covering a range of themes and settings.